About Cells: while Cello failed to materialize, there are Cells based GUI bindings, to Tk and GTK+. I actually rather like the approach, even if I did not try to build anything very complex, which is why I try to maintain the latter.

For a more retro programming experience, CL and Tcl/Tk are actually a rather good fit. Deploying can be a bit of a pain, and Tcl definitely takes some getting used to, but recent Tcl/Tk versions don’t look like poop anymore, and, apart from the ridiculously verbose imperative style, I found working with Tk widgets quite pleasant compared to frameworks written in more static languages.

TC Lispers May Presentations online The Twin Cities Lisp Users Group meeting for May was last Tuesday. Teaching Introductory Programming Using Scheme Daniel Feldman gave this presentation at the TC Lispers meeting in May 2010. Presentation Slides Course Description page Teaching Introductory Programming Using Scheme on Vimeo. ASDF2 Robert Goldman gave this lightning talk to...

TC Lispers April Presentations online The Twin Cities Lisp Users Group meeting for April was last Monday. The main topic was Web Frameworks, but there were also two shorter talks. Weblocks Presentation Patrick Stein gave this presentation at the TC Lispers meeting in April 2010. Presentation Slides Weblocks on Vimeo. Allegro Serve and Web Actions...

First TC Lispers Meeting A Success The first meeting of the TC Lispers group was a big success, IMO. I was figuring on an attendance near 20. My estimate is that it was really right around 40. That left us a little cramped in the meeting room at the Cafe, but we managed. We also lost...